Justice Sam Hou Fai () is the President of the Court of Final Appeal of Macau, the highest court in

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, China. Before his legal career Sam worked in numerous departments in Macau: * Deputy Secretary of Macau Monetary Authority 1987-1992 * Special Assistant to the Vice-President of the Legislative Council of Macau 1992-1993 * Commissioner of Labour Affairs Bureau 1995-1997 * Judge, Court and Public Prosecutions Office 1995-1997 * Secretary for Economic Coordination (Macau) 1995-1997 * Secretary of Finance Services Bureau (

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) 2000-2002 Justice Sam is also President of the ''Conselho dos Magistrados Judiciais'' and member of the ''Commissão Independente para a Indigitação de Juízes''.

Early life

Sam was born in May 1962 in China and raised in

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. After entering university in 1978 he entered law school in 1981 and earned his bachelor's degree in law from Peking University in

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. After practicing law in China he moved to Macau in 1986, studied at the

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and joined the Public Prosecutions Office of Macau in 1995.

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